We used to be a proper country.

The fact that we can even ask…

If you find one, I want to know too. This would be a fun customization.

Looks like it originated from this 5 year old reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/lnmvge/weirdos_oc_revised_edition/

I think more than one of them were like this! I just ripped a bunch of old DVDs to my Jellyfin server, and for some movies, I had to first run it in VLC to double-check that I was ripping the right track, which meant navigating through that nonsense… I remember doing it with multiple HP discs.

This takes me back.

This reminds me of the fake animals that people buy in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” for appearances.

Yeah “You mean like my idol??”

Public chatrooms were everywhere too. It was just the default, anywhere you went. AOL, yahoo games, random websites for no reason.

Even as late as Starcraft 2 (so 2010-), you’d open the game and immediately be dropped into a giant public chatroom on the home screen with everyone else currently playing.

Surely it’s happened. A lot of dudes with perfectly good hair are anxious about balding.

Make it so.

That’s amazing. It doesn’t seem crazy these days to meet your spouse online, but I know y’all must have gotten some funny reactions telling people back then.

I’m thinking the other way: if it ever happens to me, I’ll just embrace the baldness. But I imagine it’s a lot easier to say that now than it would be at the time.

Very true. I think there definitely needs to be a framework for accepting late work in these cases, which is much better than calling it 50% out of thin air.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about punishment for behavioral issues or expelling students. What I’m suggesting is that the logic of grades determining behavioral issues is flawed, and it’s far more likely that both the behavioral issues and poor grades are symptoms of something else.

I’m saying that throwing out the legitimacy of our metrics by fudging the numbers for these students is not the right approach and is in fact a disservice to them.

That’s cruel!

That’s just hard to fathom for me. Wow.

Please tell me that people aren’t clicking ads…

It seems like there’s almost certainly a confounding variable here: the kids who are likely to engage in criminality are also the ones most likely to do poorly in school, skip classes, and be held back.

It’s more correlation than causal - for the same reason that we couldn’t just give every student straight A’s and expect them to have similar outcomes as students who would have otherwise earned straight A’s.

Working backwards like that is like trying to help someone lose weight by tweaking their scale to always show a healthy BMI.

I’m really sorry to hear that. I think a lot of parents are in the same boat, and we’re going to see the effects of it for years.